I don’t know why they boing boing does this. On occasion they will grab some story and even after it has been debunked keep the article up and continue to make posts like nothing happened. Some of the news here is sloppy like that.
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Not a news site, tho.
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I think if you were to ask around most people here have more respect for technical producers than financiers, rather than the other way around. Personally I don’t believe that any billionaire earned their money and all of them are immoral monsters, Gates included.
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Let me summarize. This is a story about a deal that does not exist to buy a yacht that does not exist…
I use to run the main on an R-Class, wich is like a little brother to the J’s
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when they have that kind of money, why tie themselves down to one vehicle though
they could rent a different adventure every day for the rest of their lives
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Don’t tell me it’s Pirate. Is it Pirate? Because look at this:
Signed and dated 1937.
The only other R-boats I know are Ruweda V, just restored in Rhode Island, and can’t quite pull up the other one’s name. Maybe Cock Robin?
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Penobscot. 1923 R-Class Sloop. When she was berthed out of Biscayne Bay.
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I know of her! I remember when she went up for sale in about '05 or so for super cheap - under $50k, maybe by a lot - but needed refastening, etc. I was in the middle of restoring a Herreshoff NY30 at the time, and considered picking her up to keep me sailing in the interim. Nice!
I’ll boast a bit and let on that my avatar shows me on the pointy end of Onawa, 12mR US6, Starling Burgess design.
Very cool. Yea, we ran her hard in regattas on the bay. So I’m not surprised she needed a lot of work. We basically entered every race possible. We often beat purpose built glass hulls so long as there was not a massive reach. I use to be a competitive windsurfer so on Penobscot I would hike off the back of that swept, overhanging transom with only my toes on the rail and look fore at the lenght of her teaked hull healed into the water like if she was my sailboard. Some of the best sailing I have ever experienced. I’m actually cruising on a classic trawler with my family now as I restore her (my partner is not a sailor).
Very cool, indeed. I’ve been to the masthead of two of the Js, and that’s quite a view. Was pretty heavily involved with the whole wooden boat crowd, so know the delights on offer in that realm. I’m guessing you’re restoring the trawler, and not Penobscot, right? Having bent in a few frames on my NY30, I know the pleasure of putting in the work on one’s own vessel. Goodonya.
Yea, the trawler. Recaulking the teak decks this winter and resealing/rebuilding all the windows while I wait for the great white north to get less white. She is almost 50 years old but thankfully she has a glass hull. She was the signal boat for most regattas on the Bay until we left on this extended cruise. I always wanted to crew a J, you are very lucky.
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Dont worry, Seakeeper has them covered.
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A Grand Banks? Because those are really lovely. Many a sailor has moved into many a Grand Banks over the years. And yeah, I live in a saily town, and am a lifelong sailor, and so opportunities present themselves. I got to drive Shamrock V and Endeavour, and crewed on Ranger a couple of times. Peak decadent J experience was “boom service,” whereby champagne was served to my [ex-]wife and I by a crew person as we sat on the outboard end of the boom on a broad reach, about 80-100 feet away from the hull.
You bet. 1973 36 with twin Lehmans and a dark blue hull.
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Very nice! Nice find for you, too. My NY30 was originally built in 1905, 30’ at the waterline, 43 ½’ on deck, 8 ½’ beam, 32’ boom. Rocket ship of her day.
Brave man restoring a wood hull! My GB is one of the first glass ones. I’m actually taking woodworking right now from an 80yo shipright so I can do all the restoring myself.
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I was once a trustee at the Int’l Yacht Restoration School, so thus my own boat and proclivities, and my applause for your having found a way to keep the old skills alive. And fiberglass from the '70s is usually way overbuilt, and thus stiffer and better for longer. Great catch.
Which was exactly what the now-known-to-be-false story about Gates buying that boat described as what he actually does!
